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I have a landscaping website that I have a section for Bonsai trees on. I added several links and a small graphic for one of the bonsai advertisers from CJ. This month according to my stats I've had over 1100 clicks to the bonsai tree catalog site which was over 3% click thru rate. No sales.

This seems very odd to me since really in order for these people to have gotten to this point they have clicked on a specific Bonsai Tree Adwords ad, went to my site to read about Bonsai, clicked the link to get more info on bonsai and absolutely no sales.

Are there any words of wisdom out there? I want to use CJ but it just doesn't seem to be working for me.

well, on first bit of research I may have found a problem. I clicked one of the links I have on my site and it took me to the main Bonsai catalog page. The customer would have to go and click other pages to get into the catalog. I guess one other question I have is will my tracking ID follow them through the site or once they leave that first page are they off my ID?

I will continue my fake "purchase" as suggested above to see what happens.

Go through back to the beginning and look at your link as well as relationship (check for keyword link too).

Try to get the links from your site to land on the actual page for the product...not just the catalog in general. If you don't have the product catalog (if they have one) look under "get html / advanced options" do they have a destination page redirection option?

also try using a ?sid="keyword" or something, so that when things get rolling you'll be able to see what it making you money ;-)

My only question is this point of keyword tracking. Not sure how to do that with the CJ links so any help with that is appreciated.
Pam

If you are referring to running adwords ads you can select all keywords and click on "edit CPCs/URLs".

Then insert the CJ link in the first destination URL box with a generic sid, click the yellow "v" button on the right so the link fills in all the way down.

Next you just type each associated keyword for that link i.e. sid="keyword" all the way down your keyword list. Then if someone goes to the merchant site and buys, the sid field on CJ's commission report will tell you which keyword they came in on. Not neccessarily what they bought.

If the your adwords ad is going to your site and not direct to the merchant you could create landing pages for each keyword so you could track what the customer came in on.

I think I know what merchant you're talking about, and if I'm right, they're on ShareASale. You might want to try switching your links to ShareASale to see if you convert better with that network. I know I do.

-M

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